Welcome to r/Boston, a reddit for the city of Boston, MA, but also featuring the cities of Cambridge, Somerville, Malden, Medford, Quincy, Braintree, Newton and the town of Brookline. We have people from western Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine and more posting here.

Where's my post?

If your post doesn't show up, it may be for a number of reasons:

Is your account new? Do you have zero or negative comment karma on your reddit profile? Are you posting links to Facebook, Crowdfunding sites or using a URL shortener? Did you not read the rules in the sidebar before posting?

Did you post a question? We're trying to get most questions into a compiled Q&A thread. Please post questions in the Q&A thread.

If one or more of these things is true, your post was likely removed by Automoderator, reddit's helper bot for moderating communities.

Please take steps to fix the problem (raise your karma, age your account, remove your links to Facebook), and then contact the moderators. Include the word 'alkaline' in your message so we know you actually read this.

Moderation is a volunteer task and like many local reddits, we deal with a high amount of spam. We ask that you message the moderators with any requests, but please note that we sometimes miss things and if you don't hear from us, it's okay to message us again a few days later. Repeatedly messaging the moderators or acting hostile toward moderators is not welcome. We are limited in the tools and resources we have available to us. Be nice, don't be a spammer and try to follow the rules.

Looking for a job? Available for work?

Visiting Boston?

We get a lot of posts asking about visiting Boston... welcome! We ask that you do some research before posting in /r/Boston, to avoid repeated posts. We encourage readers to report repeated posts, and we'll do our best to try and catch them too.

Flair

If you're accessing reddit on a non-mobile device, you can easily select a piece of flair from the sidebar that'll let you identify where you're from in the area. No, we won't add your town, but hey.. you can choose 'New York' from the end of the list and set that to whatever you like (within reason) -- flair, like anything else in /r/Boston is subject to the rules of the reddit and reddiquette.

Sticking posts

We have the ability to make one self/text post visible at the top of /r/Boston. Generally it'll be this one, but occasionally we'll use it to highlight another post that's important, funny or just needs some more eyeballs. It won't rotate much, but you can click the 'hide' link to make it vanish if you like.